A Midsummer Night's Dream

Welcome to A Midsummer Night's Dream Webquest.  You will be tasked with searching various websites and answering questions along the way.  Happy learning!

Click on the Process link and answer questions that correspond with the website.  Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper in complete sentences.  Due at the end of the period. 

1. Click here to find out about William Shakespeare.  Read all 10 interesting facts and write down your 5 favorite.

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-shakespeare

2.  Click here to find out about religion in Elizabethan England.  Read and write down 5 interesting facts.

 http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/7.html

3.  Love and Marriage were an important aspect in Shakespeare's day.  Write down two facts about Children, Wives, Widows, and Men (8 total facts).

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/10.html

4. What is Midsummer's Day?  When does it take place?  Why is it important?  What do fairies have to do with it?  Explain.

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/midsummers-day.html

5. Read about fairies in Shakespeare's Day.  First summarize the existence and origin of fairies and then scroll down to where it talks about fairies in Midsummer Night's Day.  Summarize that paragraph in your own words.  What is its importance?

https://whitesides2011.wordpress.com/overview-of-the-elizabethan-fairy/

6.  Midsummer Night's Dream is set in Athens, Greece.  One of the main characters in the play is Theseus, Duke of Athens. Click here to find out about Theseus.  Summarize who Theseus is in 3-4 sentences.

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Theseus-Greek-hero

7. List and describe some of the crimes and punishments committed by the nobility?  List and describe some of the crimes and punishments committed by the lower classes?  Describe the Tower of London.  Who went there?  Who were some of the famous people who were locked up there?

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-crime-punishment.htm

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/punishment.htm

8.  Fashion was much different back in Shakespeare's day.  Answer the following questions about fashion. 

• Describe the clothes worn by the nobility (wealthy).
• Describe the clothes worn by the middle class (merchants).
• Describe the clothes worn by the working class & the poor.
• Describe the clothes worn by children.
• Describe men's and women's hairstyles.
• Describe some "accessories" worn by men and by women

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/36.html

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm

http://www.tomecek.com/jay/fashions.html

http://www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/clothing-in-elizabethan-england.html

9. Globe Theater

• Explain Shakespeare's relationship to the Globe.
• Explain who sat where in the theater.

http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/globe/globe.htm

10. Groundlings.  Read about the groundlings.  What else were they referred to as?  Why do you think that is?  How did they behave?

http://www.bardstage.org/globe-theatre-groundlings.htm

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundling